Jillian Elizabeth Ortiz, also known as Jillian Henderson, was 19 when she disappeared after a phone call to her mother on January 19, 2006. During that last contact she said she planned to travel to California to look for her brother. She was last seen in Albuquerque, New Mexico, though some reports list Moriarty as her last known location. After that call all communication stopped.

Jillian is described as a Caucasian female, blond or strawberry blond hair, blue eyes, about 5 feet tall and 100 to 120 pounds, with pierced ears, a scar on a forearm and a tattoo of a man’s name on her lower back. Shortly before she vanished officers had responded to a domestic disturbance involving her and her boyfriend, and friends and family told police she was involved in a high-risk lifestyle while struggling with a heroin addiction.

Her case has remained open and has been considered alongside other disappearances from 2003 to 2006; investigators have examined whether there are links to the West Mesa homicides, though Jillian was not among the remains recovered in 2009. Anyone with information about Jillian’s last movements or where she might have gone is asked to come forward.